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Breathtaking Australian Star Trails by Lincoln Harrison

You might’ve seen dozens of great long exposure photography examples, but the work by the Australian Lincoln Harrison will make your jaw drop. This amateur photographer spends up to 15 hours in the Australian outbacks in order to capture the long exposure shots of the star trails over the Lake Eppalock. The result is incredibly surreal – due to the motion of the Earth it seems that the stars are traveling across the sky, drawing vibrant circular trails.

Lincoln got drawn to photography by pure accident: just a little over 2 years ago, he bought his first camera, a Nikon D3100, in order to photograph some clothes he wanted to sell on eBay. This purchase, however, resulted differently than he might’ve expected: “I wasn’t planning on getting into photography as a hobby but a week later I had about eight lenses and all the other goodies. I’ve been shooting at least two or three times a week ever since, mainly landscapes, star trails when the conditions are just right.” Thanks to him, we can see the kind of starry nights we otherwise couldn’t!

What do you think?

Droid

Beautiful!

simpleman31406

They’re Beautiful but I’m a skeptic that these are not “out of the camera” time lapse photos. I’ve never seen a density of colors in the stars like this as well as the fact each star is changing colors so dramatically. Another big give away is the complete lack of star reflection on the water in one picture and other reflections appear to have a uniform subdued Gaussian blur-as though it were rendered in Photoshop. Please understand, I think they’re beautiful works of art but not necessarily what they’re claimed to be.